 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Mike Brewer is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Professor of Economics at the University of Essex. His main interests are in the design and impact of welfare reforms, and the way the tax and benefit system affects families with children. Within this broad area, he has analysed the generosity of the tax and benefit system for families with children, and the impact of the same on work incentives. He took part in a major evaluation of working families' tax credit, examining its impact on labour supply and take-up, and more recently has evaluated the labour market impact of In Work Credit. Other research has looked at fertility and public policy, how women's labour market behaviour changes after they have children, and trends in childcare use. He has an interest in measuring poverty and living standards, and has closely followed the current government's ambition to eradicate child poverty. He studied economics at the universities of Cambridge and Bristol and he has worked at HM Treasury, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Institute for Economic and Social Research, University of Essex. 
All available publications
Mike Brewer, Monica Costa Dias and Jonathan Shaw, March 2012,
A lifetime perspective on the incentive and distributional effects of the UK tax system - IFS Seminar,
Presentations
Mike Brewer, Monica Costa Dias and Jonathan Shaw, March 2012,
A lifetime perspective on the incentive and distributional effects of the UK tax system - ISER Seminar,
Presentations
Mike Brewer, James Browne and Wenchao (Michelle) Jin, March 2012,
Universal Credit: a preliminary analysis of its impact on incomes and work incentives,
Fiscal Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, March 2012,
Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 39–71,
Blackwell Publishing,
Journal Articles
Mike Brewer and Cormac O'Dea, March 2012,
Measuring living standards with income and consumption: Evidence from the UK,
IFS Working Papers
New version:
Mike Brewer and Cormac O'Dea, July 2012,
Measuring living standards with income and consumption: evidence from the UK,
IFS Working Papers
, W12/12
Mike Brewer, James Browne and Paul Johnson, February 2012,
The 50p income tax rate: what is known and what will be known? ,
in The IFS Green Budget: February 2012
Book Chapters
Mike Brewer and Robert Joyce, February 2012,
Withdrawing Child Benefit from better-off families: are there better options? ,
in The IFS Green Budget: February 2012
Book Chapters
Mike Brewer, Costas Meghir, Jonathan Shaw and Monica Costa Dias, February 2012,
A lifetime perspective on the distributional aspects of the tax system - U. of Copenhagen,
Presentations
Mike Brewer and Liam Wren-Lewis, December 2011,
Why did Britain's households get richer? Decomposing UK household income growth between 1968 and 2008-09 (IFS analysis for the Resolution Foundation),
IFS Briefing Notes
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Mike Brewer, Monica Costa Dias and Jonathan Shaw, December 2011,
A lifetime perspective on the distributional and incentive effects of UK personal taxes,
Presentations
Mike Brewer, James Browne and Robert Joyce, October 2011,
Universal Credit not enough to prevent a decade of rising poverty,
IFS Press Releases
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